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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A leading manufacturer of medical scopes will pay at least $635 million to resolve separate criminal and civil investigations into kickbacks and foreign bribery. Olympus Corp. announced Tuesday that its Pennsylvania-based U.S. unit will pay $612 million plus interest to end the kickback case in New Jersey. The company also agreed to a corporate-integrity agreement and the appointment of a monitor. The firm's Latin American medical business will pay $22.8 million to resolve a separate criminal case. Both units face criminal charges that federal officials will drop as part of the settlement. Olympus says the kickback case involves an investigation of "interactions and financial relationships" with medical business customers and doctors who use its products. The probe focused on "activities" between 2006 and 2011 to induce the sale of Olympus products. Federal prosecutors were due to discuss the settlement at a news conference on Tuesday.

Olympus to pay at least $635 million to end US probes